More on the D’Cerrado a’Amazonia REDD project in Brazil. Featuring SSO...
By Chris Lang In July 2016, Boniface Mburaburirwe wrote to REDD-Monitor, asking whether I (or anyone I knew) was interested in buying 345 million “certified carbon credits already invested on...
View ArticleTullett Brown carbon credit investment scam, five years on. Bradley Ferry,...
By Chris Lang Five years ago, REDD-Monitor wrote about four men in the UK who received 14-year director bans. The bans followed their involvement in a £5.5 million land banking and carbon credit scam....
View ArticleGlobal Forestry Investments: Skeene and Bowers plead not guilty
By Chris Lang Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers, former directors of Global Forestry Investments, last week pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. In 2019, following an investigation by the Serious Fraud...
View ArticleGreen IS Group: An FSC-certified Ponzi scheme
By Chris Lang BR & UK Florestal EIRELI – EPP is a Brazilian company that runs teak plantations in Brazil. In March 2018, Imaflora audited the company’s 53 hectares of plantations and remnants of...
View ArticleSavraj Gata-Aura sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Bar...
By Chris Lang On 27 July 2020, Savraj Gata-Aura was sentenced to four years in prison for his part in the Bar Works investment scam. More than 800 investors handed over more than US$40 million...
View ArticleChloride Eastern Limited is still being cloned by scammers
By Chris Lang In March 2020, REDD-Monitor wrote about a scam company that was cloning Chloride Eastern Limited. The fraudsters were contacting people out of the blue, claiming that they could sell the...
View ArticleCarbon conman Sami Raja is finally in prison
By Chris Lang In January 2019, Sami Raja was convicted of fraud and sentenced to eight years in prison. In his trail at Southwark Crown Court, Raja was found guilty of six counts of conspiracy to...
View ArticleA company calling itself Carbon Credit Registry is running a recovery room scam
By Chris Lang REDD-Monitor recently received an email with the subject “Another VER scam site…” The email stated, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know (in case you’ve not already come...
View ArticleSeven years ago, Renwick Haddow and Kristan Gander set up a scam in Dubai...
By Chris Lang When the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority took Capital Alternatives and several other companies to the High Court in 2013, Renwick Haddow and the other people behind the scams did not...
View ArticleThe Carbon Credit Registry carbon credit “reformatting” scam continues: A...
By Chris Lang Earlier this week, REDD-Monitor received an email from “John”. John had been cold called by Simon Humphries, who claimed to be from a company called Williams & Gray. Humphries told...
View ArticleResponse from Guy Conroy, CEO of Green IS Group Limited: “We are giving you...
By Chris Lang In July 2020, REDD-Monitor wrote about a company called Green IS Group. The company offers investments in “Green Bonds”. Based on what the company itself says about the investment, I...
View ArticleResponse from Martin Horan, CEO of RemoveReports, to REDD-Monitor’s post...
By Chris Lang In May 2019, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about Gurpreet Singh Rai, who described himself as a “prominent figure of the Carbon Market”. The post outlined some of the companies Rai has been...
View ArticleUPDATED – Brett Tremain: “We currently hold 9.5m REDD’s carbon certificates...
By Chris Lang Someone called Brett Tremain recently sent the following message via LinkedIn: I hope this finds you well, the reason for the request is we are protecting 125,000-hectare site in Para...
View ArticleMark Loewen, director of World Wide Carbon LLC, pleads guilty to defrauding...
By Chris Lang World Wide Carbon LLC was a company registered in Atlanta in the US. From 2013 to 2018, the company claimed to sell investments related to carbon credits. In total seven victims handed...
View ArticleResponse from Kurt Kaiser, Director of Compass Carbon: “Your article was of...
By Chris Lang Kurt Kaiser, Director of Compass Carbon LLC, has written to REDD-Monitor in response to last week’s post about a company called World Wide Carbon LLC. The post focussed on the fact that...
View ArticleAnother response from Kurt Kaiser, Compass Carbon: “All of Mark Loewen’s...
By Chris Lang Yesterday, REDD-Monitor sent some questions to Kurt Kaiser, a partner of a company called Compass Carbon. Kaiser responded with a threat of legal action against REDD-Monitor, but didn’t...
View ArticleFinancial Conduct Authority warns about ‘clone firm’ investment scams, but...
The Financial Conduct Authority's press release about 'clone firm' investment scams utterly fails to promise meaningful action to stamp out fraud. The post Financial Conduct Authority warns about...
View ArticleA company calling itself “Good Investment Advisors” is running a recovery...
Good Investment Advisors is a clone company that cold-calls victims of investments scams and claims that it can sell their carbon credits or bonds. For an advance fee, of course. The post A company...
View ArticleWhy has the Financial Conduct Authority not taken down the website of the...
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning about Good Investment Advisors. But the scam company's website is still live, two weeks after REDD-Monitor reported this scam to the FCA. The post...
View ArticleGraeme Biggar, Director-General of the UK’s National Economic Crime Centre:...
In January 2021, the Treasury Committee on Economic Crime held a meeting, that includes a must read exchange between Angela Eagle, Labour MP for Wallasey, and Graeme Biggar, Director-General, National...
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